The Panel for Wednesday 1 August 2018

3:46 PM.Sea salt, news pips and Auckland temperatures. Read more Audio

3:52 PM.The Sunday Times once called Lennon and McCartney the greatest composers since Beethoven - and their songwriting has been prolific. Audio

4:03 PM.Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters has stamp on the position during his six weeks filing in for Jacinda Ardern. He's been prepared to criticise his own coalition Government policy, especially… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Everything you think you know about what skills you need and how to promote yourself on your CV could be wrong. Future employers won't scan your CV or care much about your NCEA results. They will look… Read more Audio

4:10 PM.Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters has stamp on the position during his six weeks filing in for Jacinda Ardern. He's been prepared to criticize his own coalition Government policy, especially… Read more Audio

4:13 PM.The ANZ bank says business conficence is at a 10-year low. Conventional wisdom cites this is because a Labour-led government is in power. Part of this uncertainty is put down to a plan to increase the… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.The Auckland City Council has hired "thinkers" to offer up various future scenarios for New Zealand's biggest city. These go from a wonderful technological utopia to a poverty-stricken, crime-ridden… Read more Audio

4:33 PM.Everything you think you know about what skills you need and how to promote yourself on your CV could be wrong. Future employers won't scan your CV or care much about your NCEA results. They will look… Read more Audio

4:38 PM.Massey University's study of 11,000 older New Zealanders finds them happy, healthy, and eager to find work. However in 2016 there were more over-65s registered job-seekers than 18 to 24-year-olds… Read more Audio

4:42 PM.What the Panelists Michele A'Court and Bernard Hickey want to talk about. Audio

4:46 PM.We have some interesting court cases to discuss with Dunedin barrister Anne Stevens. A man's sentence was reduced despite aspects that immensely troubled the high court judge. Police aren't laying… Read more Audio

4:53 PM.The NZ Women's Law Journal wants an article dumped or censored from the Law Society newsletter. The article was by Auckland lawyer Thomas Bloy. He writes supportively about diversity and the #metoo… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Comedienne Penny Ashton is in Auckland and public relations specialist Chris Wikaira is in the RNZ Wellington studio.